crane1
noun kreɪnkreɪn
1A large, tall machine used for moving heavy objects by suspending them from a projecting arm or beam.
起重机a dockside craneas modifier a crane driver- Volunteers used an overhead crane that had been left in the space to rig the theatrical lighting.
- Then the crane swings back and drops its hook down into the hold again.
- The assembly room is also equipped with a mobile crane capable of lifting 3200 kg.
- The crane collapsed during an operation to increase its height.
- On any given day there are 10-20 construction cranes on the skyline.
- A gantry crane lifts the containers onto the ship.
- Giant cranes were lifting large, mangled steel beams and depositing them onto 18-wheelers.
- A large mobile crane removed the container later on in the day.
- He reluctantly took the controls and tried to operate the crane, which became unbalanced.
- Then the specimen was transferred into the calibration chamber using an overhead crane.
- The driver was negligent in operating the crane and injured a third party.
- A 200-ton crane then lifts the tree to its new site.
- Countless thousands of giant construction cranes dominate the skyline.
- With the gantry crane on site, the new turbine is being unloaded and moved to its foundation.
- The crane toppled over when a skip of concrete was being lowered to the beach.
- The search for remains must continue, says Matt Newman, crane operator.
- Instrumental in the success of the project was the tallest freestanding tower crane ever erected in Oklahoma.
- The company has brought them from a brewery in the Midlands and installed them using a giant crane.
- A massive crane lowered the tank into place and nothing will be seen above ground except a section of concrete.
- Another barge also had to be hoisted by crane on to a low loader.
derrick, winch, hoist, davit, windlass, tackle, block and tackle, lifting gearNautical sheerlegs- 1.1 A moving platform supporting a television or film camera.（支承电视或电影摄像机的）机动升降台架a very long tracking shot done with dolly and craneas modifier the opening crane shot
- When, in a rare moment, a crane or long shot is employed, the film starts to rumble awake.
- In one daring scene he uses a crane shot to swoop from a very high angle into a choker close shot of his sweating angelic face.
- It used to be that a crane shot or a super-special camera package was a real rarity.
- The crew is enormous, stars are pampered, camera cranes abound, everything is shot on studio sets, there is even a helicopter shot.
- For the next sequence, the cameraman gets on to the crane for a wide-angle shot.
- Von Trier did forego the zoom-in camera on a crane for which Hollywood dance production numbers are cosmetically arranged.
- Tykwer has a boundless ambition when it comes to complicated crane shots.
- Creative use of crane shots heightens the sense of menace at key times.
- The camera is constantly moving in graceful curves and crane shots abound.
- It witnesses the confession not from inside the police station, but from a single take crane shot outside the building.
- Nice photo there showing the full perspective on the crowd from a crane shot.
- Up until recently I'd been using a wheelchair for dolly shots and a plank of wood for a crane.
- With cameras mounted on cranes and a blitz of camerawork, they bring the fight scenes from Raging Bull to mind.
- Questioned about a story point, they say things like, ‘Oh I'll just use a crane to shoot that scene.’
- Theres a lot of mention of cranes and cameras on sticks.
- Jackson's impossible crane shots and frightening creatures could not possibly have been accomplished without CGI.
- From somewhere above, a man seated on a crane swung into the staging area.
- But they are the same as furniture, the same as camera cranes, the same as real estate.
- As a child, Oseman remembers acting out scenes with his Lego men, closing one eye and raising his head to simulate a crane shot.
- The film is one enormous set, with product placement everywhere and the camera crew ever keen to test crane shots.
verb kreɪnkreɪn
1no object, with adverbial of direction Stretch out one's body or neck in order to see something.
伸长脖子（看）she craned forward to look more clearly她伸长脖子以看得更清楚些。
- She raised her head, wondering what if anything to say, and then suddenly craned forward.
- Children as young as seven look up at a giant screen, necks craned and mouths open, as a man performs magic on a football field.
- Sasha craned around to look up at me.
- Two hundred Dwarves in the audience craned forward, watching the drama intently.
- But enough necks were craning around for a look at the famous profile.
- Chairs creaked, and necks craned as every eye tried to catch a glimpse of the stranger.
- Neck craned upwards, we note the sleek Columbus Circle towers or the GE building's detailing.
- "That's really weird, " Cory said, craning to look up at the view.
- The hired thugs, both in front and behind him, lowered their daggers and craned forward in anticipation.
- My neck, having craned forward for so long, needed a new position.
- A white face on a slender neck - the heron craning forward.
- Syona's head, craned forward, was obscured by her short lustrous hair.
- Outside we would go, necks craned, eyes upward, waiting for our glimpse at the wonders of modern aviation.
- He craned forward in his seat, clutching the reins with one hand and holding his swollen belly with the other.
- You'll need to lift your head out of the water, much like a water polo player craning forward to see the ball.
- As he craned to see the man's face, Paige yanked him back.
- A thousand heads crane forward just for a glimpse of the man.
- I craned forward again, catching small parts of the conversation.
- Rowena craned around to see the clock.
- She flicked her ears and craned across to look out after him.
- 1.1with object Stretch out (one's neck) so as to see something.伸长脖子（看）she craned her neck to see past me
- And Parliament Street was packed with people craning their necks for a look.
- She'd been taking out some garbage but had now commenced craning her neck to see into our apartment.
- She craned her head around from where she was positioned and grinned at me.
- The kid keeps craning his neck around to look.
- Try not to get caught craning your neck to read it.
- His eyes snapped open and he craned his head around, searching for someone.
- But let's stop craning our necks in search for it, hunh?
- One woman dressed for a night out makes her way up the aisle, craning her neck at the carvings on the ceiling as if in a museum.
- At the sound of his voice they started, looking first left, then right, then finally craning their necks.
- More than 2,000 people are expected to attend, craning their necks for the massive bonfire and display ‘worth a few grand’.
- I had my face close to the window, craning my neck to scan.
- I'm a veteran of this route and as usual, I'll be craning my neck when we pass by the ballpark and the marina.
- Anna craned her head over his shoulder to look at what he was doing.
- It seemed everyone was craning their necks out of their car windows at something on the left side of the highway.
- So why, then, do I keep giving myself cramps craning my neck to see down the path?
- Alissa then craned her neck left to right.
- She had to crane her neck upward to do so but somehow managed to stay incredibly dignified in the process.
- Cautiously, he moved forward, craning his head to the side trying to see if anyone was crouching behind the bush.
- The men were like tourists, craning their necks and trying to see the firefighters raging up and down the riverbanks.
2with object and adverbial Move (a heavy object) with a crane.
（用起重机）吊运（重物）the wheelhouse module is craned into position on the hull操舵室预制件被起重机吊到了船体的适当位置上。
- The modules are delivered to site by road where they are craned into position in just a few days.
- A specially-designed extension will be built off-site and then craned into place on top of the existing ground-floor catering department.
- After manufacture at Huntington, 72 steel-framed modules have now been craned into position at Portsmouth.
- The single-storey centre was craned into position.
- Powerful magnets were carefully craned over buildings into their new position.
Origin
Middle English: figuratively from crane2 (the same sense development occurred in the related German Kran and Dutch kraan (see crane2), and in French grue). The verb dates from the late 16th century.
The first meaning of crane, in the Middle Ages, was as the name for the long-legged wading bird that was then common in marshy places. The similarly long-legged lifting machine was also being called a crane as early as the 14th century. German, Dutch, and French also use their word for the bird for the machine.
Rhymes
abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne
crane2
nounkreɪnkreɪn
A tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or grey plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head. Cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances.
鹤Family Gruidae: four genera, in particular Grus, and several species, including the Eurasian common crane (G. grus)
- They had domesticated geese and pigeons and a wide variety of wild birds like herons, pelicans, cranes and ducks.
- With his last exhibition being on Siberian cranes, feathered creatures equally move Ajay Singh.
- When allowed to multiply, rose scale can turn cranes white.
- The skies are quiet except for the occasional sandhill crane and its raucous cries.
- She watched a hawk make lazy spirals, and a white crane swooped down into the water next to her.
- High above the skies will be filled with gliding cranes, storks and birds of prey.
- The crane has light to dark blue-gray plumage and a crimson cap at the back of its crown.
- Distant relatives of cranes, trumpeters are long-legged, chicken-sized birds that glean fallen fruit from the ground.
- The spot where I like to sit looks out over rocky shallows where ducks, gulls, heron, cranes, and egrets like to gather.
- Yet there are six subspecies of sandhill crane, and not all are thriving.
- Big birds such as the cranes and storks too can be seen taking frequent drinks and baths at their troughs.
- The zoo hosts a large number of water fowl, cranes and storks - species that are sensitive to changes in wetland systems.
- Water buffalo and goats graze placidly alongside the track; elegant white cranes glide serenely across the paddy fields.
- About 1.6 million votes recommended the red-crowned crane to be national bird.
- In October 2003 the refuge briefly hosted an endangered whooping crane, one of only about three hundred alive today.
- The injured whooping crane was part of the last remaining wild flock, which numbers around 200 birds.
- To see a true crane of pure white was no less than seeing a miracle, and so she could not help but to stare back.
- Is it your sense that these feathered dinosaurs are more closely related, to say the crane or the Dodo bird?
- The courtship rituals of cranes are elaborate: paired birds spread their wings and leap repeatedly into the air while calling.
- Both countries have been working together ever since they realized how close the whooping crane was to extinction.
Origin
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraan and German Kran, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin grus and Greek geranos.
crane1
nounkreɪnkrān
1A large, tall machine used for moving heavy objects by suspending them from a projecting arm or beam.
起重机- Then the specimen was transferred into the calibration chamber using an overhead crane.
- The driver was negligent in operating the crane and injured a third party.
- The search for remains must continue, says Matt Newman, crane operator.
- The company has brought them from a brewery in the Midlands and installed them using a giant crane.
- The crane collapsed during an operation to increase its height.
- Another barge also had to be hoisted by crane on to a low loader.
- A massive crane lowered the tank into place and nothing will be seen above ground except a section of concrete.
- On any given day there are 10-20 construction cranes on the skyline.
- The assembly room is also equipped with a mobile crane capable of lifting 3200 kg.
- Countless thousands of giant construction cranes dominate the skyline.
- A gantry crane lifts the containers onto the ship.
- A 200-ton crane then lifts the tree to its new site.
- Then the crane swings back and drops its hook down into the hold again.
- Giant cranes were lifting large, mangled steel beams and depositing them onto 18-wheelers.
- The crane toppled over when a skip of concrete was being lowered to the beach.
- Instrumental in the success of the project was the tallest freestanding tower crane ever erected in Oklahoma.
- Volunteers used an overhead crane that had been left in the space to rig the theatrical lighting.
- He reluctantly took the controls and tried to operate the crane, which became unbalanced.
- A large mobile crane removed the container later on in the day.
- With the gantry crane on site, the new turbine is being unloaded and moved to its foundation.
derrick, winch, hoist, davit, windlass, tackle, block and tackle, lifting gear- 1.1 A moving platform supporting a television or movie camera.（支承电视或电影摄像机的）机动升降台架
- Up until recently I'd been using a wheelchair for dolly shots and a plank of wood for a crane.
- Von Trier did forego the zoom-in camera on a crane for which Hollywood dance production numbers are cosmetically arranged.
- As a child, Oseman remembers acting out scenes with his Lego men, closing one eye and raising his head to simulate a crane shot.
- In one daring scene he uses a crane shot to swoop from a very high angle into a choker close shot of his sweating angelic face.
- Nice photo there showing the full perspective on the crowd from a crane shot.
- Tykwer has a boundless ambition when it comes to complicated crane shots.
- It used to be that a crane shot or a super-special camera package was a real rarity.
- The film is one enormous set, with product placement everywhere and the camera crew ever keen to test crane shots.
- Jackson's impossible crane shots and frightening creatures could not possibly have been accomplished without CGI.
- Creative use of crane shots heightens the sense of menace at key times.
- Questioned about a story point, they say things like, ‘Oh I'll just use a crane to shoot that scene.’
- For the next sequence, the cameraman gets on to the crane for a wide-angle shot.
- With cameras mounted on cranes and a blitz of camerawork, they bring the fight scenes from Raging Bull to mind.
- Theres a lot of mention of cranes and cameras on sticks.
- The camera is constantly moving in graceful curves and crane shots abound.
- When, in a rare moment, a crane or long shot is employed, the film starts to rumble awake.
- But they are the same as furniture, the same as camera cranes, the same as real estate.
- From somewhere above, a man seated on a crane swung into the staging area.
- The crew is enormous, stars are pampered, camera cranes abound, everything is shot on studio sets, there is even a helicopter shot.
- It witnesses the confession not from inside the police station, but from a single take crane shot outside the building.
verbkreɪnkrān
1no object, with adverbial of direction Stretch out one's body or neck in order to see something.
伸长脖子（看）she craned forward to look more clearly她伸长脖子以看得更清楚些。
- She flicked her ears and craned across to look out after him.
- A thousand heads crane forward just for a glimpse of the man.
- The hired thugs, both in front and behind him, lowered their daggers and craned forward in anticipation.
- As he craned to see the man's face, Paige yanked him back.
- He craned forward in his seat, clutching the reins with one hand and holding his swollen belly with the other.
- She raised her head, wondering what if anything to say, and then suddenly craned forward.
- Rowena craned around to see the clock.
- A white face on a slender neck - the heron craning forward.
- Outside we would go, necks craned, eyes upward, waiting for our glimpse at the wonders of modern aviation.
- Sasha craned around to look up at me.
- "That's really weird, " Cory said, craning to look up at the view.
- Chairs creaked, and necks craned as every eye tried to catch a glimpse of the stranger.
- My neck, having craned forward for so long, needed a new position.
- Two hundred Dwarves in the audience craned forward, watching the drama intently.
- You'll need to lift your head out of the water, much like a water polo player craning forward to see the ball.
- Children as young as seven look up at a giant screen, necks craned and mouths open, as a man performs magic on a football field.
- Syona's head, craned forward, was obscured by her short lustrous hair.
- I craned forward again, catching small parts of the conversation.
- But enough necks were craning around for a look at the famous profile.
- Neck craned upwards, we note the sleek Columbus Circle towers or the GE building's detailing.
- 1.1with object Stretch out (one's neck) so as to see something.伸长脖子（看）craning their necks to get a glimpse of the president
- His eyes snapped open and he craned his head around, searching for someone.
- It seemed everyone was craning their necks out of their car windows at something on the left side of the highway.
- Try not to get caught craning your neck to read it.
- The kid keeps craning his neck around to look.
- The men were like tourists, craning their necks and trying to see the firefighters raging up and down the riverbanks.
- She'd been taking out some garbage but had now commenced craning her neck to see into our apartment.
- But let's stop craning our necks in search for it, hunh?
- She had to crane her neck upward to do so but somehow managed to stay incredibly dignified in the process.
- And Parliament Street was packed with people craning their necks for a look.
- More than 2,000 people are expected to attend, craning their necks for the massive bonfire and display ‘worth a few grand’.
- At the sound of his voice they started, looking first left, then right, then finally craning their necks.
- Anna craned her head over his shoulder to look at what he was doing.
- So why, then, do I keep giving myself cramps craning my neck to see down the path?
- She craned her head around from where she was positioned and grinned at me.
- Cautiously, he moved forward, craning his head to the side trying to see if anyone was crouching behind the bush.
- One woman dressed for a night out makes her way up the aisle, craning her neck at the carvings on the ceiling as if in a museum.
- Alissa then craned her neck left to right.
- I had my face close to the window, craning my neck to scan.
- I'm a veteran of this route and as usual, I'll be craning my neck when we pass by the ballpark and the marina.
2with object and adverbial Move (a heavy object) with a crane.
（用起重机）吊运（重物）the wheelhouse module is craned into position on the hull操舵室预制件被起重机吊到了船体的适当位置上。
- The modules are delivered to site by road where they are craned into position in just a few days.
- Powerful magnets were carefully craned over buildings into their new position.
- After manufacture at Huntington, 72 steel-framed modules have now been craned into position at Portsmouth.
- The single-storey centre was craned into position.
- A specially-designed extension will be built off-site and then craned into place on top of the existing ground-floor catering department.
Origin
Middle English: figuratively from crane (the same sense development occurred in the related German Kran and Dutch kraan (see crane), and in French grue). The verb dates from the late 16th century.
crane2
nounkreɪnkrān
A tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or gray plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head. Cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances.
鹤Family Gruidae: four genera, in particular Grus, and several species, including the Eurasian common crane (G. grus)
- High above the skies will be filled with gliding cranes, storks and birds of prey.
- Big birds such as the cranes and storks too can be seen taking frequent drinks and baths at their troughs.
- When allowed to multiply, rose scale can turn cranes white.
- Water buffalo and goats graze placidly alongside the track; elegant white cranes glide serenely across the paddy fields.
- The spot where I like to sit looks out over rocky shallows where ducks, gulls, heron, cranes, and egrets like to gather.
- Is it your sense that these feathered dinosaurs are more closely related, to say the crane or the Dodo bird?
- Distant relatives of cranes, trumpeters are long-legged, chicken-sized birds that glean fallen fruit from the ground.
- She watched a hawk make lazy spirals, and a white crane swooped down into the water next to her.
- In October 2003 the refuge briefly hosted an endangered whooping crane, one of only about three hundred alive today.
- The zoo hosts a large number of water fowl, cranes and storks - species that are sensitive to changes in wetland systems.
- They had domesticated geese and pigeons and a wide variety of wild birds like herons, pelicans, cranes and ducks.
- To see a true crane of pure white was no less than seeing a miracle, and so she could not help but to stare back.
- With his last exhibition being on Siberian cranes, feathered creatures equally move Ajay Singh.
- The crane has light to dark blue-gray plumage and a crimson cap at the back of its crown.
- Both countries have been working together ever since they realized how close the whooping crane was to extinction.
- The injured whooping crane was part of the last remaining wild flock, which numbers around 200 birds.
- About 1.6 million votes recommended the red-crowned crane to be national bird.
- The courtship rituals of cranes are elaborate: paired birds spread their wings and leap repeatedly into the air while calling.
- Yet there are six subspecies of sandhill crane, and not all are thriving.
- The skies are quiet except for the occasional sandhill crane and its raucous cries.
Origin
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraan and German Kran, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin grus and Greek geranos.